Tom Arnold

b. Thomas Charles Arnold, 19 August 1893, Richmond, Yorkshire, Britain, d. 2 Feb 1969, London, Britain. An important maker and supervisor of musicals and additional lavish and magnificent occasions in London’s Western End as well as the provinces for quite some time. While still in his twenties, Arnold toured revues like the Showbox as well as the Vanity Box, and a variety of additional displays, including Tom Arnold’s Circus, before showing Folies Bergere in the London Palladium in 1925. After that, until the past due 30s, he continuing to tour musicals, revues, and additional types of productions at a phenomenal price in the home and in countries such as for example South Africa and Australia. These included Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart’s One Dam Thing After Another, Charles B. Cochran and Noël Coward’s THIS SEASON Of Elegance!, Vivian Ellis and A.P. Herbert’s Streamline, Cole Porter’s Anything Moves, and Eric Maschwitz, George Posford, and Bernard Grun’s strike, Balalaika. In 1938, Arnold offered Henry V at Drury Street, with Ivor Novello as the Ruler. This association flourished in the foreseeable future, with the maker mounting Novello’s group of extremely effective musicals, The Dance Years (1939 in the Western End, its local tour, as well as the 1942 revival), Arc De Triomphe (1943), Perchance To Desire (1945), Ruler’s Rhapsody (1949), and Homosexual’s THE TERM (1951) – the second option starring Cicely Courtneidge. Arnold experienced previously managed many of her previously showcases, such as for example Clowns In Clover, Total Golf swing, Something In The Air flow, and BENEATH THE Counter. Commensurate with his plan of employed in many contrasting regions of showbusiness, in the first 50s Arnold offered Noël Coward’s startlingly different ‘revue-musical’ Ace Of Night clubs, aswell as staging luxurious spectacles such as for example Rose Marie On Glaciers at Harringay, Dick Whittington On Glaciers at Wembley, and the most common pantomimes. He previously previously inaugurated Tom Arnold’s Harringay Circus Annual at Xmas 1947 and Latin One fourth (1949) on the London Gambling house. During the remaining 50s, Arnold blended dramatic theatre along with his various other interests, including the Moscow Condition Circus. In August 1960, he opened up a revival of Rose Marie on the Victoria Palace, with vocalist David Whitfield, and presented three completely new musicals: the traditional Pickwick (1963) and Our Guy Crichton (1964), along with Lionel Bart and Alun Owen’s significantly different Maggie Might. He also managed the Western world End transfer from the Broadway musical Small Me, which provided comedian Bruce Forsyth the chance to shine. From then on, there have been no main musical productions for Arnold, although he continuing creating his annual spectaculars, and was honored the OBE a couple weeks before he passed away in 1969. His boy, Tom Arnold (b. Thomas Richard Arnold, 25 January 1947, London, Britain), also became a creating manager after getting informed in Switzerland with Pembroke University, Oxford. His tasks included glaciers pantomimes at London’s Wembley Area, aswell as Western world End presentations and local tours of displays starring artists such as for example Danny La Rue, and takes on and musicals like the Ruler And I, SUNLIGHT Males, and Peter Skillet. He became a Traditional Person in Parliament in 1974, and was knighted in 1990.